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Lesson Plan 9
TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas

Essential
Questions

PA/Common
Core/Standards
Objective
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
Evidence
ISTE Standards
for Students
Framework for
21st Century
Learning
Accommodation
s, Modifications

DETAILS
CK
Miss Sydney Geyer
ELA Reading
Fourth Grade
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Elements of poetry are crucial to the understanding of a
poem.
Rhyme is the words that sound the same, often at the
end of the line in a poem.
Rhythm is the beat of the poem.
What are the elements of poetry?
What is rhyme?
What is rhythm?
How can we use critical thinking to better understand a
poem?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10

Students will be able to identify and describe a poem.

Formal assessment: Checking the completion of Close

Reading Worksheet

Research and information fluency

Communication and collaboration
Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making

Page numbers for the answers of the Close Reading

handout are provided to guide the student in finding
the answers for students with reading comprehension
disabilities.

SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE

Seton Hill University Lesson Plan Template Step-by-Step

Procedures
RATIONALE for
the Learning
Plan
Introduction

CK
Activating Prior Knowledge
Talk about rhyme and rhythm definitions.
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set

Explicit
Instructions

Lesson
Procedure

Read The Wind and the Moon for the second read as a
large group.
Big Idea Statement
Elements of poetry are crucial to the understanding of a
poem.
Rhyme is the words that sound the same, often at the
end of the line in a poem.
Rhythm is the beat of the poem.
Essential Questions Statement
What are the elements of poetry?
What is rhyme?
What is rhythm?
How can we use critical thinking to better understand a
poem?
Objective Statement
Students will be able to identify and describe a poem.
Transition
Timer to control time management for appropriate
lesson transitions.
Key Vocabulary
Rhyme, rhythm
PreAssessment of Students
Probing questions of the definition of rhyme and rhythm.
Modeling of the Concept
Read the poem aloud to the class for the second read.
Guiding the Practice
Review the questions on Close Reading Worksheet
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will complete Close Reading Worksheet
independently.
Transition
Timer to control time management for appropriate
lesson transitions.
iPoet poster
Lesson 4 Poetry Packet

Reading
Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of
Formal Evaluation
the
Checking the completion of Close Reading Worksheet
Learning/Master
y of the
Concept
Closure
Summary & Review of the Learning
Go over the answers for Close Reading Worksheet in a
large group
Homework/Assignments
None

Teacher
Self-reflection